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COXE’S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA. 883
The principal commodities exported from Aftracan to the ports of the Cafpian fea,
are cloths, chiefly Englifh, Dutch, French, and Silefian; vitriol, foap, alum, fugar,
Ruffian leather, needles, and cotton ftuffs, coarfe linen manufadtured in Ruffia, velvets,
glafs ware, and looking-glafles, writing paper, a few furs and {kins, a fmall quantity of
tea, provifions, chiefly corn and butter, wine, brandy, wooden furniture, fea-horfe
teeth ; alfo iron, brafs, tin, lead, hardware, watches, &c. &c. In 1775, the value of
the cloths exported amounted to 52,600l.; the cochineal to 45,60ol.; and the indigo
to 7,000. Imports: Raw and manufactured filks, but chiefly the former, from the
provinces of Shirvan and Ghilan; which article, in 1775, amounted to 43,8001. Bu-
charian lamb-fkins, rice, dried fruit, fpices and drugs, coffee, wine, faffron, falt, ful-
phur, andnaphtha. ‘The Indiansand merchants of Khiva bring occafionally to Aftra-
can gold and filver in bars, gold-duft, precious ftones, and pearls.
The trade of the Cafpian fea had confiderably declined before the acceflion of the late
Emprefs: by the abolition of monopolies, and by other ufeful regulations, it has lately in-
creafed to fuch a degree, that within the fpace of fifteen years the average fum of the
exports and imports has been nearly tripled:
Total exports
and imports.
Exports 6,100].
1780; ; neat ae 100 ee se fexoer
Balance againft Ruffia - 6,000
Exports 87,7001.
1768. tee 63,700 5 . X5Es4e9
Balance in favour of Ruflia 24,000
2 Exports 125,40ol.
1775" Tae 64,120 r . 189,520
wee
Balance in favour of Ruffia 61,280
Traffic with Georgia and the natives of Caucafus_ - 10,000
Total in 1775. ° . > 199,520
The contraband trade is not included in this calculation *.
Commerce with the Bucharians and Chinefe.
Under the commerce with the Bucharians} I comprize that with the Calmucs, and
other Tartar nations beyond the frontiers of Siberia; becaufe it is of fuch little impor-
tance as {carcely to deferve a feparate article.
* The reader who withes to trace the rife, progrefs, and prefent flate of the commerce on the Cafpian
fea, muft confult and compare Hackluyt’s Collection of Voyages, vol. i. p. 324 to 4313 Hanway’s Britith
Trade of the Cafpian Sea; Cooke’s Travels; $. R. G. vii. 103546; Gmelin’s Reife, vol. iii. ; and
Guldenftaedt’s Treatife mentioned above. ;
+ Having before mentioned the commerce with the Bucharians upon the Eaftern coafts of the Cafpian,
it ts needlefs to enter upon any further detail of it in this place.
§U 4 The
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